July 22, 2022
Read the articles in the Summer 2022 issue of Academic Questions at a glance.
July 22, 2022
Editor's note and correction to “Wanted: Strong Leaders for Higher Education” in Volume 32, Issue 1.
July 22, 2022
In a society crippled by identity politics and collective victimization, it is rare to find people who are still suited for liberty, self-government, and life in a limited state. The authors in this i......
July 22, 2022
A survey of 175 million scholarly articles published over the last five decades has found a sharp spike in words denoting prejudice and social justice themes beginning in 2010 and lasting at least thr......
July 22, 2022
Logical fallacies are the bane of critical thinking. Ironic, then, that Critical Race Theory is full of them.
July 22, 2022
Personal anecdotes do not invalidate statistical generalizations. This basic rule of statistical reasoning seems to have been lost on people who should know better.
July 22, 2022
It is an old but wise truism that the facts of science cannot provide a set of values by which to live. But when the motives and values necessary to sustain it are strongly reinforced, scie......
July 22, 2022
The dubious notion that the U.S. is a “systemically racist” nation has taken hold in art education, as in virtually every sphere of American life.
July 22, 2022
Three public philosophies have been predominant in the modern world. All three have advantages and disadvantages, but only one ensures the objective study of science and humanity.
July 22, 2022
The over-specialization of academic disciplines, the decline of core curricula, deference to student sentiment, administrative overreach, and restrictions on speech have erased the university’s......
July 22, 2022
A pivotal figure in the field of Egyptology, Assyriology, and biblical studies, Sir Ernest Wallis Budge was an illegitimate child of the Victorian age who succeeded against the odds. Today he is casti......
July 22, 2022
An absorbing and bittersweet film from the 1990s speaks to tyranny’s hatred of the arts, the timelessness of great music, the universality of beauty, and the lie of “cultural appropriation......
July 22, 2022
Math teacher Steven Schwartzman muses about what will happen when equity activists set their sights on mathematics, condemning the marginalization of whole numbers labelled “odd.”......
July 22, 2022
Where some critics see only dystopia and misanthropy in the violent novels of Cormac McCarthy, sociologist Alexander Riley notices a “distinct moral core” in McCarthy’s best-known fi......
July 22, 2022
Sexual harassment is a serious offense with unique characteristics that make the determination of guilt especially difficult. So why is this task undertaken by university administrators who have no ex......
July 22, 2022
A trenchant culture warrior and a warm and lively raconteur, author Midge Decter leaves us with a cache of incisive criticism to guide us in this decisive cultural moment.
July 22, 2022
Among the many intellectual luminaries who helped birth the National Association of Scholars, Midge Decter was “The One.”
July 22, 2022
A review of "The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults," by Mark Bauerlein, Regnery Gateway, 2022, pp. 310, $29.99, hardbound.
July 22, 2022
A review of "Wrath: America Enraged," by Peter W. Wood, Encounter Books, 2021, pp. 256, $24.49 hardbound.
July 22, 2022
A review of "The Chair," a limited streaming television series, Netflix.com, 2021, 1 Season.
July 22, 2022
A review of "What Do White Americans Owe Black People: Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression," Jason D. Hill, Emancipation Books, 2021, pp. 234, $21.49 hardcover.
July 22, 2022
A review of "Classical Crossroads: The Path Forward for Music in the 21st Century," by Leonard Slatkin, Amadeus, 2021, 238 pp., $23.49 hardcover.
July 22, 2022
A review of "What Universities Owe Democracy," by Ronald J. Daniels, Grant Shreve, Phillip Spector, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021, pp. 322, $19.86 hardcover.
July 22, 2022
Poems from William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Catharine Savage Brosman.
